Prosthetic Paradise(2) Enfetishment&MS (fwd)

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Jody schrieb:

>Are you implying that "the perfectly
>'rationalized' form of the Archontic Terror, that had been going on  in the
>Garden of Eden ever since the Fall" ...was caused by some sort of sin, of
>com or om?

 Uuhhh, don't you remember the nasty things we did after you gave me that 
 apple ... ?!  

> But, I say, are Auschwitz, the Gulag and Hiroshima...not to mention those
> materialized souls, really so terrifying? Are they more or less terrifying
> than, say, the irreversible car accident , or any other pseudo-random
> event? 

  To me they somehow are. This was refering to Paul's formulation "Age of   
  Enlightment". A project of science & politics, promising to take away the 
  fears & injustices between the people ... Nice try. At least the Gulag &   
  Hiroshima were meant to defend the "Age of Enlighment" against its enemies,   
  no? And before the war the Nazi eugenics programme was praised by leading   
  Western newspapers as very "modern" & "progressive" ... Foucault once     
  recommended to look where the danger comes from. Well, when I'm going to buy  
  the new "Spiegel" later this day there will probably be again of those pretty 
  decent advertisements of the pharma industry telling me to "Imagine" (- by   
  using the English word they, that's really sick, refer to Lennon's song) a   
  world in which 'heartache will be only something temporary among lovers' or   
  something like that. And Microsoft is already developing its genetic screening 
  software. In the Swiss Kanton Basel there hasn't been a single birth of a 
  child with downs syndrome for more than 15 years. And in the USA, I recently 
  read, there is an uprising social movement propagating the selection of life  
  partners according to genetic criteria. "What a beautiful world this will be  
  ...". The "post-postmodern State" will return to "bio-politics" and this is   
  where we're going to day by day. One day, to give an example, this "3 times & 
  you're out"-thing won't work anymore, and then somebody, probably a harmless  
  looking fellow with a likeable expression on his face, will suggest new ways  
  to keep poor people away from suburbia ... And all these materalized souls,   
  practicing 'health & sports' as if this would save their bodyminds from   
  decaying, will nod (- "Sounds like a reasonable concept") and then go on with 
  worrying about their golf handicaps ...
 
> I think we all tend to be a little too comfitted by some underlying
> instinctual, irrational "blanky" called randomness, once luxuriant, but now
> really quite holey.
> Even those snowballs follow paths.

  Not quite sure whether I understand you correctly (- my dictionary doesn't 
  know the word "holey"). Being "thrown" into the conditional world we are 
  always moving inside it. All events are coined by structures. From a     
  sociological perspective we can, with Luhmann, also say that all   
  communications take place inside (- and never ever outside)of society. So in 
  the moment the system communicates there are, at the 
  same time und not to anticipate, world wide many other communications, 
  observations of observations, in this endless universe of meaning.
  But maybe all this is only constituted by our "forms of view" (- Kant's    
  "Anschauungsformen") and not by things themselves. Like Jim Morrison once 
  wrote in a poem: "The bird or insect that stumbles into a room/ and cannot 
  find the window. Because they know/ no 'windows'" (The Lords and The New 
  Creatures, p. 35).

  THEY are the Archons (- if you don't believe me, ask Harold Bloom). This 
  certain metaphysical gloom, we also find in Burroughs & the late R.D. 
  Brinkmann, is one of the things that fascinates me most in Pynchon. And in all 
  three cases the narrative perspective is clearly situated after the historical 
  turning from enlightment into madness, that culminated in the macro crimes 
  between 1930 and 1945. Each of these crimes is somehow unique.
  On the socio-spiritual uniqueness of Hiroshima: "The Bomb blasted a hole in 
  humanity's collective soul. With the ever-present threat of total destruction 
  by human agency, century's of faith in a transcendent external principle - and 
  the socio-political structures built around it - evaporated. Hell was now only 
  five minutes away, and the likelihood of a divine hand reaching out to stop it 
  was remote. Matter was now negotiable, as was the destiny of the species. 
  (...) Demons are configurations of energy/information, and any configuration 
  is now possible. All the demons are out of the box, and the true spirit of the 
  age now has a name. This is the Age of All Demons - This is the
  PanDaemonAeon." 
  (Templum Nigri Solis: ANNO CHAOS---THE PANDAENONAEON. pp. 205-207 in:    
  Christopher S. Hyatt (ed.): Rebels & Devils. The Psychology of Liberation.    
  Tempe, Arizona 1996: New Falcon Publications)   


                                                     Wishful/Sinful - Kai